Environmental Exposure Assessment

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Time: October 9-11, 2007

Place: University of Kuopio, Kuopio (Maps and connections)

Canthia (the building number 1 on the map)

Snellmania (the building number 5 on the map)

Tietoteknia (the building number 13 on the map)

Credits: 2.0 credit points

Language: English

Organizers: The course is organized jointly by the Graduate school in Environmental Health and Environmental Risk Assessment Centre (ERAC)

Course leader: Pertti Pasanen, PhD, Prof., Dept. of Environmental Sciences, University of Kuopio

Course description:

The course is a continuation to the basic course of exposure assessment in risk analysis. The course is recommended those passed the previous mentioned course or other prevailing knowledge. This course goes into more detailed methods of exposure assessment used in epidemiology.

Topics:

Introduction to exposure assessment. Personal exposure assessment. Retrospective exposure assessment. Exposure misclassification and measurement error; implications for epidemiology. Questionnaire design.

Lecturer:

Mark Nieuwenhuijsen Research Professor in Environmental Epidemiology Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain

Further information: Sari.Makkonen(at)uku.fi, Tel. +358-17-163188

Time schedule:

Date	Lecture
Tuesday, October 9
Snellmania, S24
9-11	Introduction to exposure assessment
11-12	Excercise sources and pathways
13-15	Excercise sources and pathways
15-16	Exposure misclassification and measurement error, implications for epidemiology
Wednesday, October 10
Tietoteknia, 1035
9-11	Personal exposure assessment
11-12	Biological monitoring
13-14	Questionnaire design
14-16	Questionnaire excercise
Thursday, October 11
Canthia, S12
9-10	Questionnaire excercise -presentation
10-11	Retrospective exposure assessment
11-12	Exposure assessment excercise
13-15	Exposure assessment excercise
15-16	Wrap up